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albatman

"so internet service providers like Time Warner Cable would likely have to get behind this initiative"
This is weird, what does cable companies have to do with this? You need to have a fast internet provider(Fiber), this is not a technological limitation, but rather a limitation you imposed on yourself by picking a cheap provider

"which is a good phone if you like Android"
How come, you don't see things like "iPhone 6 is a good phone if you like iPhone"? Because that is certainly a much bigger if, considering only 15% of the population likes iPhone vs 80% for Android.

Here is the thing @Jay, I do understand that fanboys always want to write good stories, and you will make up whatever excuses to make this product better than other, and there is nothing wrong with that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, the problem is that BI's readers mostly don't agree with this, this is not AppleInsider, so the audience that come here expect balanced reviews, and I am pretty sure you will have more viewership if your reviews were more balanced.
Heck, you would get more shares if the viewers agree with you. I for example have started visiting BI less and less, because these articles make less sense day after day, and I am not really interested in fanboy type articles, and have switched to reading other blogs.
It is one thing to hail a new product, it is another to hail a product ALL the time including when they do things that other products had before and dismissed them at the time (too large, too gimmicky etc).

"iPad sales growth continues to shrink"
I don't think you can read charts properly, the iPad growth is not shrinking, there is negative growth... and that is called decline, not growth. Shrinking growth means growing about at a slower rate, and that is no longer the case.

The screen size is a big deal. People that say the iPhone screen size is fine are similar to those who said BB bold screen was fine.You have no idea what you are missing, because simply you need to try it.
I switched to Android 3 years ago, all I did was borrow a large screen Android for the weekend, and when I went back to my iPhone it just felt ridiculous so I bought an Android phone.
As for "Most people you speak to love the iPhone size", yep and most blackberry users loved the size of their screens in 2008

"Most retailers aren't equipped to take payments over Near Field Communication (NFC)"
I am just curious, where do you live? Afghanistan?
Where I live (not Afghanistan), most retailers do have NFC payment, it's the same thing you use your credit card PayPass (Mastercard) or PayWave(Visa).. yes, I figured you don't know this already.

I was also weird to see the countdown, to what is going to be the most boring earnings report from Apple in years.
The forecast is a (slight) drop in revenue compared to year ago, but the guidance is a 10% drop from last year, and judging how Apple has been good with their guidance, I think everyone will be disappointed today.
Would be interesting what kind of countdown will Jay put up tomorrow.

So where is the sexism allegations now? All I can see is office politics and a drama queen. If anything she has set back the whole women in tech cause she was trying to invoke in her initial outburst.
If anything, this shows in fact that the tech industry works hard to hire women and keep them despite being poor team players that create drama for no good reason.
BTW, She hasn't even bothered to update her LinkedIn profile!

Yep. I think the analysis is flawed based on the logic of the analysis itself.
Google growth has accelerated faster than the growth of internet users. This analysis is based on 10 years but completely ignores the trend of the last year. Just look at your own charts Jim, you will realize how wrong you are.

True. But there is a major shift in how marketing is done these days, it is a lot more about engineering than old fashion marketing.
Plus if you build something brilliant, you can always hire marketing and accountant, the most difficult talent to find these days is good engineers.

I don't think you understand how it works.
You can't fork Android and have access to Google Play or Google services. Those are under strict Google control, only Android's source code is open, not the services.